Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture

After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Chambers: Obama is Gay. And Christian.

Our old friend Dean Chambers is back with yet another column full of baseless speculation, this time proclaiming that Barack Obama is actually gay. And, bizarrely, that this proves that he’s Christian and not Muslim because Christians don’t hate gays the way Muslims do. He has two sources for this claim.

There are two sources to the claim of Obama being gay that I believe are credible. The first is Larry Sinclar, who wrote the book Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder? Sinclair says it was well known in the Chicago gay community that Barack Obama is gay. The book description, in part, says, “This searing candid story begins with Barack Obama meeting Larry Sinclair in November, 1999, and subsequently procuring and selling cocaine, and then engaging in consensual, homosexual sex with Sinclair on November 6th and again on November 7, 1999. You’ll read in riveting detail how Sinclair, in 2007, repeatedly contacted and requested that the Obama campaign simply come clean about their candidate’s 1999 drug use and sales. You learn how the Obama campaign, David Axelrod and Barack Obama used Donald Young (the homosexual lover of Barack Obama) to contact and seek out information from Sinclair about who he had told of Obama’s crimes and actions. You’ll read how the Obama campaign used internet porn king Dan Parisi and Ph.D. fraud Edward I. Gelb to conduct a rigged polygraph exam in an attempt to make the Sinclair story go away.”

Wow, the book’s description, written by the publisher, supports his claims? How compelling. Sinclair is not just not a credible source, he’s a verifiable fraud. Politico reports that he has a “27-year criminal record, with a specialty in crimes involving deceit,” including multiple convictions for forgery and fraud. In an absolutely bizarre press conference in 2008 seeking attention for his allegations, he showed up with a lawyer with a suspending license, wearing a kilt that he said was necessary because he has such a large penis that it wouldn’t fit in his pants. I’m not making that up.

Frequent World Net Daily columnist, Dr. Jerome Corsi, has also researched and written on this issue. I believe he is a credible source as well. In this article, titled “Claim: Obama hid ‘gay life’ to become president,” Corsi documents extensively the claim that Obama is in fact gay.

Corsi? Credible? The guy who claims that Obama was married to his male college roommate (before there was such a thing as gay marriage) and that he wears a ring that sends secret messages to Muslim terrorists? Okey dokey.

Perhaps this answers the question about whether Obama really is a Christian or whether he is a Muslim, as some have claimed and polls show that a minority of American still believe the President Obama is a Muslim. This might well be why Obama actually is a Christian, and at some point chose to become one. Christians don’t hate gays; Christians who believe that homosexuality is wrong take the humane approach of loving the sinner and opposing the sin. Muslims, on the other hand, have been known to stone someone for being gay.

Oh yes, of course. Christians just love gay people. That’s why they — some of them — work so hard to deny them equal rights and the leaders of so many prominent Christian groups still call for prison for them.

Dean Chambers — “unskewing” reality and turning it into his own delusions.

Oh yes, of course. Christians just love gay people. That’s why they — some of them — work so hard to deny them equal rights and the leaders of so many prominent Christian groups still call for prison for them.”

I like the attack on Ed Gelb, a well known polygraph practitioner. Larry Sinclair took a polygraph examination from Gelb stating that the latter was considered one of the premier practitioners of the procedure and that the results would thoroughly vindicate his claims about his love affair with Obama. He failed the test miserably and preceded to trash the examiner. Sound familiar? Just like phony climate pontificator Anthony Watts said that he would accept any result that Prof. Richard Muller came up with and when the latter didn’t publish findings consistent with Watts’ predilections, proceeded to trash his reputation.

This is what phonies like Watts and Sinclair do when they are caught out, trash the messenger.

Ed, you might want to edit this sentence slightly, it is a bit misleading as written:

In an absolutely bizarre press conference in 2008 seeking attention for his allegations, he showed up with a lawyer with a suspending license, wearing a kilt that he* said was necessary because he* has such a large penis that it wouldn’t fit in his* pants.

The pronouns that I starred refer to the lawyer with the suspended license, not to Sinclair. But on reading the way you put it I assumed they referred to Sinclair. Perhaps add “who was” before “weaing a kilt”?

Last evening I was a guest for dinner at somebody’s house. Next to the dining room table was a book shelf were I noticed the following:

David Barton’s first big book.

A DVD of Expelled (Ben Stein arguing creationists are persecuted).

A Pat Robertson book on the looming new world order.

Jerome Corsi’s America for Sale.

Fortunately for me politics was not discussed. I just had to hear a prayer directed toward “father God”, who supposedly promises us unimaginable suffering for all of eternity; and yet God’s my dad and loves me.